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Comic (Book) Relief

My students need to view the library as a source of excitement and reading as a pleasure: an extensive comic book collection is one powerful way to entice kids in and begin the experience.

  • $738 goal

This project expired on September 9, 2008.

This project expired on September 9, 2008.

Ms. R. Hillside Elementary School
Hastings On Hudson, NY Grades 3-5

I am the newly hired librarian at a suburban K-4 school and am trying to turn the neglected and outdated library from a place of dread into a palace of delight. My budget is non-existent this year because I was hired in November after it had been spent, and I really want the kids to have new and delicious books, especially the boys, whose interest in reading is less than it could be. To that end, I would like to start a comic book/graphic novel collection. (I confess to having spent long hours reading Sergeant Rock comics as a child, so this grant is written from the heart.) Besides their innate desirability as slightly forbidden fruit, comic books actually have tremendous value in enhancing literacy. Their format is very sophisticated and encourages children to develop skill in sequencing (first, middle, last) that is very predictive of good readers. Comic books may have more sophisticated language than children are usually exposed to, and the new generation of younger comic books writers create material that is particularly appropriate and still exciting and visually stimulating. The artwork itself is vivid, imaginative and of a high quality, helpful when competing with the bells and whistles of the Cartoon Network. I know from previous library work that once word gets out that you have "The Simpsons" or "Bone" or "Calvin and Hobbes" or "Babymouse," you can't keep kids away. And even if the particular comic book is not available, once I have enticed the reader into my kingdom, where the motto is "For every book a reader, for every reader a book," I can go to work convincing that child that reading can be as thrilling as a video game or a movie, offering books to tide them over until the comic book is back from circulation. I have started many a child on the path to reading for pleasure in this mildly devious way. I would like to purchase some of the material in duplicate, because a lot of the children like to form their own ad hoc reading groups of two, and again this kind of self-generated enthusiasm and peer support leads to ever better readers. I think of myself as a stealth librarian, sneaking books and reading into children's lives until they become enthusiastic, joyous readers; comic books are great “weapons” in this War for Literacy.

300 students impacted
Ms. R. Hillside Elementary School Grades 3-5 Hastings On Hudson, NY View local requests 300 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Robot Dreams Sara Varon • Barnes and Noble $15.25 1 $15.25
Best of the Fifties Victor Gorelick (Editor), Victor Gorelick, Paul Castiglia (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $9.85 1 $9.85
Best of the Forties, Vol. 2 John L. Goldwater, Various, Manufactured by Archie Comics • Barnes and Noble $9.85 1 $9.85
Sardine in Outer Space 5, Vol. 5 Emmanuel Guibert • Barnes and Noble $12.70 1 $12.70
Best of the Seventies Volume 4 Victor Gorelick (Editor), Paul Costiglia (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $8.95 1 $8.95
Best of the Sixties Frankie Avalon (Introduction), John L. Goldwater • Barnes and Noble $8.95 1 $8.95
Best of the Eighties Michael I. Silberkleit, John L. Goldwater, Foreword by Steve Geppi • Barnes and Noble $9.85 1 $9.85
Archie Americana Series - Best of the Fifties, Vol. 2 John L. Goldwater, Various, Bob Montana • Barnes and Noble $9.85 1 $9.85
Big Bad Book of Bart Simpson Matt Groening, Igor Baranko (Editor), James Bates (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $12.55 1 $12.55
Big Beastly Book of Bart Simpson Matt Groening • Barnes and Noble $13.45 1 $13.45
Simpsons Comics Beach Blanket Bongo Matt Groening • Barnes and Noble $13.45 1 $13.45
Simpsons Comics Madness Matt Groening • Barnes and Noble $13.45 1 $13.45
The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror: Hoodoo Voodoo Brouhaha Matt Groening, Dan Brereton, Hilary Barta, Serban Cristescu, Neil Alsip (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $5.98 1 $5.98
Courtney Crumrin in the Twilight Kingdom (Courtney Crumrin Series Volume 3) Ted Naifeh, James Lucas Jones, Steven Birch, Joe Nozemack, James Lucas Jones (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $10.75 1 $10.75
Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things Ted Naifeh, James Lucas Jones (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $10.75 1 $10.75
Courtney Crumrin and the Coven of Mystics Ted Naifeh, Ted Naifeh (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $10.75 1 $10.75
Sardine in Outer Space 4 (Sardine in Outer Space Series #4), Vol. 4 Emmanuel Guibert, Joann Sfar (Illustrator), Edward Gauvin (Translator) • Barnes and Noble $12.55 1 $12.55
Sardine in Outer Space (Sardine in Outer Space Series, No. 1) Emmanuel Guibert, Joann Sfar (Illustrator), Walter Pezzali (Illustrator), Sasha Watson (Translator) • Barnes and Noble $12.55 1 $12.55
Sardine in Outer Space 2 (Sardine in Outer Space Series), Vol. 2 Emmanuel Guibert, Joann Sfar (Illustrator), Walter Pezzali (Illustrator), Sasha Watson (Translator) • Barnes and Noble $11.65 1 $11.65
Sardine in Outer Space 3 Emmanuel Guibert, Joann Sfar (Illustrator), Walter Pezzali (Illustrator), Alexis Siegel (Translator) • Barnes and Noble $11.65 1 $11.65
Owly Volume 2, Just a Little Blue Andy Runton, Andy Runton (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $9.00 2 $18.00
Owly Volume 3, Flying Lessons Andy Runton, Andy Runton (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $9.00 2 $18.00
Time to Be Brave, Vol. 4 Andy Runton, Andy Runton (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $9.00 2 $18.00
Owly Volume 1, The Way Home & The Bittersweet Summer Andy Runton, Andy Runton (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $9.00 2 $18.00
Ghost Circles (Bone Series #7) Jeff Smith, Steve Hamaker (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
Bone: The Dragonslayer (Bone Series #4) Jeff Smith, Jeff Smith (Illustrator), Steve Hamaker (Illustrator), Steve Hamaker • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
Bone: Rock Jaw: Master of The Eastern Border (Bone Series #5) Jeff Smith, Steve Hamaker (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
Bone: Out from Boneville (Bone Series #1), Vol. 1 Jeff Smith, Jeff Smith (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
Bone: Eyes of the Storm (Bone Series #3) Jeff Smith, Steve Hamaker (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
Bone: The Great Cow Race (Bone Series #2), Vol. 2 Jeff Smith, Steve Hamaker (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
Old Man's Cave (Bone Series #6) Jeff Smith, Steve Hamaker (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
Whole World's Crazy, Vol. 1 Jimmy Gownley, Jimmy Gownley (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.45 2 $26.90
Amelia Rules! Superheroes, Volume 3 Jimmy Gownley, Jimmy Gownley (Illustrator), Bob Schooley (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $13.45 2 $26.90
Amelia Rules!: What Makes You Happy, Volume 2 Jimmy Gownley, Jimmy Gownley (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.45 2 $26.90
Nancy Drew Girl Detective Boxed Set: The Fake Heir; Mr. Cheeters Is Missing; The Charmed Bracelet; Global Warning Sho Murase (Illustrator), Sho Murase • Barnes and Noble $26.95 1 $26.95
Ghost in the Machinery (Nancy Drew Graphic Novel Series #9) Stefan Petrucha, Sho Murase (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $7.15 1 $7.15
Monkey-Wrench Blues (Nancy Drew Graphic Novel Series #11) Stefan Petrucha, Sarah Kinney, Sho Murase (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $7.15 1 $7.15
Dress Reversal (Nancy Drew Graphic Novel Series #12) Sarah Kinney, Stefan Petrucha, Sho Murase (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $7.15 1 $7.15
The Disoriented Express (Nancy Drew Graphic Novel Series #10) Stefan Petrucha, Sarah Kinney, Sho Murase (Illustrator), Carlos Jose Guzman (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $7.15 1 $7.15
Nancy Drew Boxed Set: Graphic Novels Volumes 1-4 Stefan Petrucha (Illustrator), Vaughn Ross, Sho Murase (Illustrator), Vaughn Ross (Illustrator), Based On Work by Carolyn Keene • Barnes and Noble $26.95 1 $26.95

Materials cost

$522.91

Vendor shipping charges

 $52.29

Sales tax

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3rd party payment processing fee

$13.07

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$605.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$132.80

Total project goal

$737.80

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